Saturday, April 18, 2009

Around the World in 80 Days

"Around the World in 80 Days"

"This version of the classic novel set in 1872 focuses on Passepartout (Chan), a Chinese thief who steals a valuable jade Buddha and then seeks refuge in the traveling companionship of an eccentric London inventor and adventurer, Phileas Fogg (Coogan), who has taken on a bet with members of his gentlemens' ..."

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Stephen Frears, director of THE QUEEN and HIGH FIDELITY, continues to demonstrate his genre-defying talent with this adaptation of a Colette novel. Set in Paris in the years before World War I, CHERI paints a picture of the romance between young Chéri (Rupert Friend) and retired courtesan Léa (Michelle Pfeiffer). Chéri's mother (Kathy Bates), a rival of Léa, plots to separate the pair by arranging a marriage between her son and Edmée (Felicity Jones). Screenwriter Christopher Hampton previously collaborated with the director on DANGEROUS LIAISONS. Audiences wanting to take their minds off the recession will soon be able to experience a night of Big Apple stand-up comedy on the big screen -- without a two-drink minimum. With the success of the live-action film TRANSFORMERS, the robots in disguise proved that there was too much action for just one film. This sequel promises more in the epic battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. In this romance, two dancers get a second chance at proving their talent. Jake Mitchell (screenwriter and producer Tom Malloy) is a skilled dancer whose abilities are even more impressive when one realizes that Jake is deaf. But Jake worries that his title of World West Coast Swing Champion wasn't truly earned and that the judges only awarded the prize because of his deafness. Jessica Donovan (CRANK's Amy Smart) spends her time as a teacher, but she longs for the days when she was a young dancer. When she and her fiancé schedule dance lessons with Jake to prepare for her wedding, she gets a taste of everything she misses. Plus, her fiancé is too busy for the lessons, and she and Jake find that there's more than just West Coast Swing drawing them together. The partners decide to enter the championships, but will their tentative romance keep them from the win? LOVE 'N DANCING also stars Billy Zane, Rachel Dratch, and Caroline Rhea.

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